Images and *doc export

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#1

Hello,
I am writing a long document (my thesis) using LibreOffice and I have a lot of images (more than 50 on the 200 pages that the document) have). All images were made with LO Draw. I scanned portions of the documents that I am analysing and glue them with Draw, usually put a line framing the images our group of images when it is ready I select all the objects, group them and copy/past them to writer. Until here everything works smoothly. The problem comes when I try to export the document to a doc word (which I can not avoid has it has to be read by my supervisor and she does not use LO but M$ Office). All the export goes great except for the images that are not exported and do not appear in the *doc document.
Can anyone help me with this? I understand tha I can go to LO Draw, save the images as jpg and insert them in the Writer document, but if it is possible to solve this in another way that does not give me more stupid work to do I would appreciate.
Thank you all.
Orlando Figueiredo

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
How about side-stepping the issue and use
File - "Export to Pdf"

Does the supervisor need to edit the document?  If so it's a non-starter but generally Pdfs are viewed as being more professional.  Everyone sees Pdfs the same, the layout is the same and everything.  Errr, fonts sometimes not quite identical unless you print to file and then select Pdf instead of Ps.  I think.  Anyway Pdf generally gets around that sort of issue.  Also LibreOffice has more options for exporting as Pdf, such as doing uncompressed ones for better quality.

Word is really bad with graphics and doesn't have the range of "Anchor to page" and so on that LO has.  Also it kinda falls over if it has too many graphics.

Jpg can mess up images a little by making them be a bit swirly but usually it's tolerable.  Png tends to be a better format.  However by creating a Pdf you might even impress your supervisor.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

sounds like the sensible way to go :slight_smile:

Hi :slight_smile:

#4

Also, a pdf can be marked up/annotated if your supervisor only needs to comment and not actually edit.
With a PDF you are also assured that your supervisor will see the exact layout that you see and not have the layout reflowed due to some slight font or other difference (as has happened with me).
Steve

#5

Hi,
Thank you all for the suggestion. I think that the PDF solution might be the best way, although I am not sure if it will be peacefully accepted by my supervisor.
The worst case scenario will be me constructing a nem file with png images and keeping the original done with draw in a safe file to edit afterwards.
We will see.
Thx again,
Orlando

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#6

I think the pdf is really the best solution. However, your supervisor might want to put comments into the document while reading it. I tested a pdf-document created in writer (LO 3.5.6.2) yesterday but I could not add comments.

When I wanted to make the "Comment & Mark UP" toolbar in Adobe Reader (9.5.2) visible, I saw the information "Only available when document rights are enabled". I assume that the rights must be given when you create the pdf-document. I know that LO you can create various types of pdf-documents but I don't know how to set the right for comments & mark ups.

Maybe someone else in this community can explain about such rights and there settings.

#7

Thx rost52.
I am familiar with the LO pdf export options. If you choose File>Export as PDF... you have all the options that you need to make a good commentable pdf.
All the best
O.

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#8

Hi :slight_smile:
Ok, so best tactic might be to
1.  create a copy
2.  make a Pdf so you have something ready to hand in fast
3.  Meanwhile work on converting the images to pngs (or jpgs depending on whether you want quality or smaller file-size)
4. Try to get the Pdf in before your supervisor expects results but keep working at the pngs/jpgs so that you can present the editable version fairly soon after.  When you hand it in also give the odt version and a link to the LO download page for the version you use.

At my place my boss eventually started to cave in when i kept on going on about how LO has Desktop Publishing (DTP?) "stuff" that Word just doesn't have.  This was borne out by him not being able to line-up pictures and logos in Word that i was then able to line up in seconds on LO.  It's still uneasy but he has started to use LO too sometimes now.  He does have a tendency to still start documents in Word and usually that means i have to start afresh in Writer in order to get rid of insane formatting but the thread about how to paste as unformatted text helped hugely with that.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#9

What do I need to do, to get a pdf-file via file/export to pdf so I can add comments into the pdf-document?

#10

Hi,
When you choose File> Export as pdf... a new window appears and on the right there is one chceckbox that says "Annotated pdf". Choose it. I am not sure about the english name of that checkbos as I am using LO in Portuguese.
All the best.
O.

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#11

Hi :slight_smile:
step 5 (obviously) is to try to be ready to hand in the .doc quite soon after handing in the Pdf and Odt, or Od-whatever

Something else i am doing right now is to talk about the imminent release of "MS Office 2013", apparently due out at around the end of this month.  I also quite often point out that the only real reason for upgrading is when other people start using the new one because when they do documents we produce wont look quite right in the new one.   And, of course, that stuff produced in the new MS Office won't look right in our old one.

I'm deliberately calling MS Office 2010 "the old one".  I say things like "yes, the old one is better than the 2007 because the ribbon-bar is a bit more logical".  My boss admitted he couldn't find his way around the new ribbon-bar so i printed off the Quick Reference sheets from the MS.Com website "to help people get used to the old one we just bought".

Obviously it's not going to be called 2013 this time, at least i'm fairly sure it isn't but it helps people get an idea about when MS Office is likely to be released, because otherwise they seem to think that i am talking about something that isn't going to happen for another decade or so.  When i talk about MSO 2013 i try to get 2010 and 2007 versions into the same sentence.  (Yes, its happening soon and we are quickly going to be seen as out-of-date boss ;)  )

The only reason we bought all the new MSO 2010 was because the new finance spreadsheets have macros that only work in 2010.  (Aww gee boss, are these going to work in the new one?).  Since finance were getting MSO 2010 obviously everyone else 'had' to have it too.

So i am being a really Pita at work but it's getting some people to actually give LO a go as long as i can keep it secret about it being free and just 'sell it' on it's high quality 'Desktop Publishing' features such as handling images better.

Btw "and" should never be used at the start of a sentence, same with "but".  Very, very rarely you can get away with it without looking like a complete moron but it's not worth the risk. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#12

Thanks for your hint.

That I don't find anything like "Annotate pdf" is frustrating. I copy 2 screen shot of the window that opens under
File/Export to pdf in my dropbox.
Could you please have a look at
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/47733131/pdf_GeneralTab.gif
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/47733131/pdf_UserInterface.gif
and tell which checkbox you meant or if there is not such a checkbox at all.